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Did Samuel Metford push his wife from Dover Cliff? Lady Helen Dearden saw the Metfords there and knows the woman’s death was an accident. If she testifies in court, an innocent man avoids the gallows. Yet one thing will die if she testifies – her barrister husband’s career. Lady Helen had secretly gone to Dover to pay off the blackmailer who possessed letters linking her husband romantically to a married woman. Her trust in her spouse is further tested when he is later accused of killing the woman addressed in the letters. Did Lady Helen wed a murderer? Twists abound in this luminous whodunit featuring Loretta Young and Franchot Tone as the sophisticated, increasingly disquieted Deardens. Roland Young adds wit as the Deardens’ friend. And little-known Henry Daniell excels as the blackmailer.
Original Release
04/04/1936
US Release
04/04/1936
Cast
Name | Character |
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Loretta Young | Lady Helen Dearden |
Franchot Tone | Sir Alan Dearden |
Lewis Stone | General Lawrence |
Roland Young | Bunny / William "Bunny" Jeffers |
Jessie Ralph | Lady Hathaway / Lady Agatha Hathaway |
Dudley Digges | Metford / Samuel Metford |
Henry Daniell | Hugh Lewis |
Robert Greig | Henderson |
E.E. Clive | Lord Hathaway / Lord Henry Hathaway |
Wallis Clark | Grainger |
Directors
Writers
Howard Emmett Rogers, Leon Gordon, Ladislas Fodor, Bernard Merivale, Horace Jackson
Cast
Name | Character |
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Loretta Young | Lady Helen Dearden |
Franchot Tone | Sir Alan Dearden |
Lewis Stone | General Lawrence |
Roland Young | Bunny / William "Bunny" Jeffers |
Jessie Ralph | Lady Hathaway / Lady Agatha Hathaway |
Dudley Digges | Metford / Samuel Metford |
Henry Daniell | Hugh Lewis |
Robert Greig | Henderson |
E.E. Clive | Lord Hathaway / Lord Henry Hathaway |
Wallis Clark | Grainger |
John Buckler | Defense Counsel |
Aileen Pringle | Diana Roggers |
Norman Ainsley | Reporter |
Guy Bellis | Attorney in Court |
Evelyn Beresford | Lady Darrington |
Thomas Braidon | Minister |
Leonard Carey | Hilton - Alan's Assistant |
Hal Cooke | Secretary |
Robert Cory | Attorney in Court |
Neal Dodd | Assistant Minister |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Sam Wood | Producer |
Lawrence Weingarten | Producer |